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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Toronto councillors campaign to ban ‘barbaric’ shark fin soup (in the Toronto Star)

"Wong-Tam (Ward 27, Toronto Centre-Rosedale), a past president of the Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto, told reporters at City Hall that she and her sisters stopped eating the traditional dish about a decade ago.

"“We are not going to bring up a fish — a shark that’s 150 pounds — from the ocean, cut off the fins and throw the rest of it back” to sink and die, she said.

"“That is just unsustainable, it’s not ethical fishing,” she said."

Full article: Toronto councillors campaign to ban ‘barbaric’ shark fin soup.

Not to mention that many shark species are now endangered...

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